Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming · 139 points · by kf · 54 comments
• Humans prefer cockiness to expertise · 125 points · by kungfooey · 72 comments
• Why "next-gen games" went gray, brown, and grey. · 91 points · by EvilTrout · 39 comments
• Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC · 88 points · by wmorein · 21 comments
• Why Mono doesn't suck · 77 points · by antileet · 83 comments
• Linus Torvalds on some good git development practices · 75 points · by michael_nielsen · 6 comments
• Celery: A Distributed Task Queue for Django · 71 points · by Jasber · 22 comments
• The hairy ball theorem · 63 points · by acangiano · 36 comments
• Authors, poets replace reporters at an Israeli newspaper for one day · 61 points · by sweetdreams · 14 comments
• Sniffing Browser History with No Javascript · 57 points · by vaksel · 28 comments
• How To Find An Idea For A New Startup · 52 points · by oliviakuhn · 17 comments
• Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB · 50 points · by avibryant · 26 comments
• All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours · 49 points · by peter123 · 38 comments
• Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder · 47 points · by peter123 · 14 comments
• The Economics of the HDMI Cable Ripoff · 46 points · by mhb · 40 comments
• Ghetto Geo-Location or How To Find Your Users Location Using Pron [SFW] · 44 points · by Corrado · 22 comments
• Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website · 42 points · by designtofly · 29 comments
• A Python Script to Automatically Extract Excerpts From Articles · 41 points · by thomaspaine · 2 comments
• How to find new startup ideas? The answer is in the question. · 40 points · by raffi · 10 comments
• The Wrong Level of Abstraction · 39 points · by bdfh42 · 11 comments
• New Arc Out · 36 points · by rams · 19 comments
• Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class · 34 points · by mshafrir · 8 comments
• Great talk on the Python GIL [video][slides in comments] · 34 points · by cstejerean · 5 comments
• Does It Matter If The Future Isn't Available In Canada? · 34 points · by jl1 · 10 comments
• IPhone UI Stencil Kit · 33 points · by tlrobinson · 7 comments
• Papers on PageRank you should read · 33 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Trying To Make a Living At Etsy? Think Again. · 31 points · by peter123 · 36 comments
• Turn Hacker News' headlines & comments into ambient histograms · 30 points · by elzr · 14 comments
• Linus' blog: Happiness is a warm SCM · 26 points · by Anon84 · 6 comments
• Flash raises the bar on Rails: more presentation nonsense. · 25 points · by knieveltech · 13 comments
• Stanley Cup (Advertising) Finals - NHL fan demographics and the SC commercials · 24 points · by clryan · 7 comments
• The TV industry is where the newspaper industry was five years ago: In denial. · 24 points · by daviday · 8 comments
• Sending null to /dev/null · 23 points · by vladev · 23 comments
• Newly discovered snow roots are 'evolutionary phenomenon' · 23 points · by ph0rque · 2 comments
• No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe · 22 points · by surki · 34 comments
• Atul Gawande: University of Chicago Medical School Commencement Address · 22 points · by absconditus · 2 comments
• Inside the Python GIL · 20 points · by jnoller · 5 comments
• WizeHive Shaping Up To Become A Powerful Collaboration Tool (ca98am79's startup) · 20 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• All my games are now free · 20 points · by axiom · 5 comments
• A post college memorandum · 18 points · by AustinF · no comments
• Security vulnerabilities found in China's nationwide installed filter software · 17 points · by liuliu · 11 comments
• Offline Processing on Google App Engine · 17 points · by drp · 5 comments
• What is RubySpec? · 17 points · by srveit · 2 comments
• When did video games become so boring? About 1998 · 16 points · by barry-cotter · 35 comments
• ThoughtWorks' assessments about Ruby's productivity, speed and maintainability · 15 points · by codeodor · no comments
• France constitution council: Access to the internet is a basic human right · 15 points · by vaksel · 14 comments
• Hot Startup Zynga Could IPO In 18 Months · 15 points · by fromedome · 5 comments
• Microsoft appeals to poverty to get people download Internet Explorer 8 · 15 points · by barredo · 22 comments
• Videogames And The Impossibility Of Escape From Planet Earth · 15 points · by mcav · 8 comments
• Tools like Microsoft PowerPoint negatively impact student learning · 14 points · by toni · 5 comments
• More Ways to Sell Out of Your Startup Stock · 13 points · by jaydub · 1 comment
• How To Sell Something: Make Up A Story · 12 points · by spectre · 1 comment
• Apple Menlo: Snow Leopard's New Console Font · 11 points · by tptacek · 25 comments
• The capital raising ladder · 11 points · by swombat · 1 comment
• What to Look For in a HTTP Proxy/Cache · 11 points · by garethr · 1 comment
• Firefox plugin extends Google & Wikipedia with "1-Click Web Explorer" · 11 points · by webzzle · 20 comments
• Interview with entrepreneur turned venture capitalist Josh Kopelman · 10 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• Palm Pre is shipping GPL incompliant · 10 points · by cgray4 · 10 comments
• Review my project: tweethegame | stream the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup on twitter · 10 points · by ryanb · 15 comments
• The Future is Parallel: What's a Programmer to do? [pdf] · 10 points · by jefffoster · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Review my students start-up · 10 points · by dmarques1 · 21 comments
• Should you move your startup to the Valley? · 10 points · by calvin · 3 comments
• China's Filtering Software Contains Pirated Code · 10 points · by tokenadult · 4 comments
• Clojure moving to github? · 9 points · by remvee · 1 comment
• EC rejects Microsoft's browser promises · 8 points · by robin_reala · 6 comments
• Internet free ride soon over · 8 points · by nreece · 8 comments
• Brian LeRoux of PhoneGap JSConf 2009 · 8 points · by voodootikigod · no comments
• How “Must Marketing” Helped Andrew Warner Bootstrap His Startup · 8 points · by oliviakuhn · 1 comment
• Safari 4 tops 11 million downloads in 3 days (6 million from Windows users) · 8 points · by barredo · 13 comments
• Fun with Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables · 8 points · by cjoh · 1 comment
• Would you use this classifieds service for domain names? · 7 points · by erikwiffin · 24 comments
• Scientists Create a Form of Pre-Life · 7 points · by Sandman · 1 comment
• The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules · 7 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Amazon's Kindle DX e-book reader is big and pricey. · 7 points · by technologizer · no comments
• How-To: Web server on a business card · 7 points · by vaksel · 3 comments
• How Europeans Do Layoffs · 7 points · by haidut · no comments
• Ask HN: Laptop recommendation? · 7 points · by kvh · 9 comments
• The Benefits of Falling Costs in Biotechnology · 6 points · by reasonattlm · no comments
• Box Clever: The Science of Ageing Wine · 6 points · by riffer · no comments
• How To Protect Yourself From Identity Theft On Facebook, Twitter, and Elsewhere · 6 points · by foppr · no comments
• Wall Street's Toxic Message · 6 points · by quoderat · 1 comment
• US economy shrinks by USD1.3T · 6 points · by sahaj · 4 comments
• Anything you think is either unoriginal, wrong or both · 6 points · by shalmanese · 4 comments
• Next Week, Opera Claims It Will “Reinvent The Web” · 6 points · by vaksel · 6 comments
• The Ham Sandwich Theorem · 6 points · by jbert · 4 comments
• Four Lessons from Y Combinator's Fresh Approach to Innovation · 6 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Rails recipes site Cookpad IPOs - in Japan · 6 points · by jim-greer · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance? · 6 points · by amichail · 24 comments
• How Smart Are You? IQ Test Scams Facebook Users · 5 points · by amichail · 7 comments
• Persuade Someone in 5 Steps · 5 points · by ajkumar · no comments
• Capital Alchemy: Make Fixed Costs Variable · 5 points · by jkopelman · no comments
• A Short History of Programming Languages · 5 points · by Rickasaurus · 1 comment
• Today is Digital TV Switch Day, Don't Turn it Into Toxic E-Waste Day · 5 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• The guts of the iPhone 3GS · 5 points · by abennett · 2 comments
• Ask HN: What are the best data warehouse and BI resources in print and online? · 5 points · by 3pt14159 · 3 comments
• Building43 · 4 points · by krishna2 · no comments
• 6 steps to building a better iphone app · 4 points · by newsio · 1 comment
• Suicidally strong IP? · 4 points · by barry-cotter · 2 comments
• Advertising · 4 points · by mvid · no comments
• R&D 2.0: Fewer Engineers, More Anthropologists · 4 points · by hellacious · no comments
• Sniffing Browser History without CSS or JavaScript · 4 points · by Sephr · 7 comments
• Dell Says It Has Earned $3 Million From Twitter · 4 points · by healthylivingal · 3 comments
• How Privacy Fails: The Facebook Applications Debacle · 4 points · by heed · no comments
• Beating the Competition · 4 points · by ErrantX · no comments
• Blu-ray gets Managed Copy next year, requires new hardware · 4 points · by _pius · 11 comments
• To all you Mono haters · 4 points · by nuclear_eclipse · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Comparing QNX and Plan 9 for system development? · 3 points · by wrp · 4 comments
• Wikipedia Page Traffic Statistics Dataset · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• What is a browser? (Video) · 3 points · by bbuffone · no comments
• Simon and Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Unstable binary apt packages for Mac OS X · 3 points · by justinweiss · 1 comment
• Don't be lazy. Don't use eval(). · 3 points · by azanar · 6 comments
• Twitter launches verified accounts · 3 points · by timf · no comments
• Data-Driven Schools See Rising Scores · 3 points · by sharksandwich · no comments
• Built to Exit · 3 points · by paulgb · no comments
• PaperG: The right local ad solution for struggling newspapers? · 3 points · by terpua · no comments
• Netbooks: Small but disruptive · 3 points · by whughes · no comments
• It's Not a Bug · 3 points · by huhtenberg · no comments
• Linux native multitouch support · 3 points · by csbartus · no comments
• Rack, Metal and Rails Middleware [screencast] · 3 points · by csbartus · no comments
• Crossing a river by feeling the stones: what business plans are *really* for · 3 points · by neilgd · no comments
• The 50th Law · 3 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Facebook's Fatal Error - The Daily Beast · 3 points · by mattjung · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What formation should I use for my business · 3 points · by rickharrison · 1 comment
• Mashable The New Tech Blog #1, Passes TechCrunch · 3 points · by haidut · no comments
• The belgian Government publishes source code for election software · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Something's Got To Give · 3 points · by danw · no comments
• Ready or Not, Analog TV Viewers Lose Their Signal · 3 points · by prakash · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Digital Image Stabilization Techniques · 3 points · by aarongough · 4 comments
• A more interesting look at the planning fallacy · 3 points · by req2 · no comments
• HP Labs: Algorithm predicts sales, manages supply chain · 3 points · by colortone · 3 comments
• The new economics of entrepreneurship · 3 points · by oliviakuhn · no comments
• Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages · 3 points · by abossy · no comments
• Will Linux, Mac Adoption Rate Ever Break 20%? · 3 points · by abennett · 1 comment
• How to Catch A Liar · 3 points · by ajkumar · no comments
• Ask HN, What bank do you use for business? · 3 points · by mikeryan · 1 comment
• Google Tech Talk - So You Want To Be A Programming Rock Star? · 3 points · by GVRV · no comments
• Active Twitter User? Thoughts on Hubspot's Methodology · 3 points · by jamesk2 · 1 comment
• Clearing Passwords in Memory with Python · 3 points · by jcsalterego · 1 comment
• Google App Engine For Java - Microblogging Case Study · 3 points · by robertjmiller · no comments
• The Physics of Nothing · 3 points · by physcab · no comments
• Trying to sell shares in a private startup? Join the club · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Twitter Starts Verifying Accounts Without Actually Verifying Them · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Hyrban: The Open-Source Hydrogen Car · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: How to promote my FreeLance Works Site? · 2 points · by rajusykam · 2 comments
• Google Chrome vs Firefox · 2 points · by siliconvaley · no comments
• How to add firbug to Chrome? · 2 points · by temp · 1 comment
• The Internet is incomplete, says Vinton Cerf (needs more cowbell) · 2 points · by dlnovell · no comments
• An interactive exploration of the Perl ecosystem · 2 points · by draegtun · no comments
• It s official: Swine flu now a global pandemic · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: When to cut your losses and rewrite with a framework? · 2 points · by andygeers · 3 comments
• Simon & Schuster Signs E-Books Deal (with Scribd) · 2 points · by aditya · no comments
• Trade-mark Owners - Prevent yours from Being Registered as Usernames on Facebook · 2 points · by nbertram · no comments
• How to stay motivated on a big project · 2 points · by alexkearns · no comments
• Persuasive Words That Build Rapport · 2 points · by ajkumar · no comments
• Dude — Dell’s Making Money Off Twitter · 2 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• @DellOutlet nets dell $3million · 2 points · by saturdayplace · no comments
• Mobile Phone As Home Computer (2005) · 2 points · by hack_edu · no comments
• The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon · 2 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Innovation through regulation · 2 points · by haidut · no comments
• What's the safest way to get an iPhone 3G S as early as possible? · 2 points · by technologizer · 2 comments
• I want my name Or how you can own your online identity. · 2 points · by treitnauer · no comments
• Enterprise Cloud Risk And Security · 2 points · by mds · no comments
• Biz Stone Answers Your Twitter Questions - Freakonomics Blog · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• [TED] Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey" (video) · 2 points · by GVRV · no comments
• WWDC Interview: The Apperian Launch Party · 2 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• Malware steals atm accounts and pin codes · 1 points · by mixmax · no comments
• Map-Reduce implemented in year 2001 at SenSage (Addamark) · 1 points · by nwatson · 1 comment
• WordPress 2.8 Resources For Developers · 1 points · by w3avenue · no comments
• Robert Scoble Interview with Facebook CEO Zuckerberg (Video) · 1 points · by jamesk2 · no comments
• Watch out, Oracle: Google tests cloud-based database · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Twitter Dev Tea Party · 1 points · by abrahamvegh · no comments
• Decision Making Under Uncertainty · 1 points · by abreckle · no comments
• Is this the killer channel for justin.tv? · 1 points · by grandalf · no comments
• Top Companies Can Tame Bear Markets · 1 points · by jackchristopher · no comments
• Repenting Syntax · 1 points · by llimllib · no comments
• The Lean Startup Tokyo edition · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• GPL Geolocation Database · 1 points · by patio11 · no comments
• Thing Labs: We Had Plinky, Now We Have The Brain And It Uses Twitter · 1 points · by foppr · no comments
• Kiva 3rd party app galery · 1 points · by siavosh · no comments
• Dealing with security questions (using relationship history) · 1 points · by paulbaumgart · no comments
• Why People Suck at Public Speaking · 1 points · by ajkumar · no comments
• A scalable reader/writer scheme with optimistic retry · 1 points · by chrisb · no comments
• So you want to be a consultant...? · 1 points · by known · no comments
• Out to Lunch: Eliot Spitzer · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Can Windows 7 save PCs? · 1 points · by oscardelben · no comments
• How to set up an Ubuntu server as a spamfilter · 1 points · by joschi · 1 comment
• 5 Amazing Methods to Find Similar Websites Based On Your Preferences · 1 points · by mancuso5 · no comments
• Strong Buy on Ian Toll’s Six Frigates · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Netbooks: Small but disruptive · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Smart-phone wars · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• What If Batman's Villains Considered Economic Theory? · 1 points · by dlnovell · 1 comment
• 25 reasons users STOP using your site/product · 1 points · by stevejalim · no comments
• Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers on tech & fashion, and entrepreneurship in Germany · 1 points · by waderoush · no comments
• New iPhone App Lets You Write in Thin Air · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• 10 men and 1 woman · 1 points · by acangiano · 1 comment
• Scoble interviews Fred Wilson on the 2010 Web (video) · 1 points · by lrm242 · no comments
• Clicktale: What Makes Your Visitors Click? · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• Wish More Hosts Offered WebDAV? Blame PHP · 1 points · by jrrl · no comments
• Novartis produces swine flu vaccine · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• PC World still thinks paid (premium) content is the way · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Ask HN: any doc format with built-in ads feature? · 1 points · by newacc · 1 comment
• Microsoft to Unveil Free Anti-Virus Software · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• Stupid idea: Charging $100 a year for an e-mail newsletter · 1 points · by shortformblog · 3 comments
• Profile | Twine · 1 points · by firoj · no comments
• Your chance to name the newest element (Element 112) · 1 points · by pierrefar · 1 comment
• Improving Common Tag : Worse is Better (Semanic Web data in CSS classes) · 1 points · by ynniv · no comments
• Giant hedge fund cracks down on investors forwarding reports · 1 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Yahoo Distribution of Hadoop · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Google Web Elements: Essential as Fire, Water, Earth, Air | Linux Magazine · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• The planning fallacy · 1 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Google Fusion Tables for Data Visualization · 1 points · by juliang · no comments
• Step By Step Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) LAMP Server Setup · 1 points · by vp · no comments
• New version of swfobject released after an year of development · 1 points · by mindhacker · no comments
• Install GUI in Ubuntu Server · 1 points · by vp · no comments
• How the new smartphones stack up [pic] · 1 points · by heed · 1 comment
• How big is your farm? · 1 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection · 1 points · by sreitshamer · 1 comment
• ActiveRecord for PHP 5.3 · 1 points · by bkudria · 1 comment
• From the Self-Aware VC to Synchronizing Modular Innovations · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Productivity gains in software engineering are powering innovation · 1 points · by adr · no comments
• FaceBook Photo Stolen For Overseas Ad (video) · 1 points · by keltecp11 · 1 comment
• When Footers Attack · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Get Off Google Crack · 1 points · by flashinfremont · no comments
• Creating Free Will · 1 points · by pj · no comments
• Programming Challenge: Letter frequency · 1 points · by peter_jansson · 2 comments
• Is the Tendency to Engage in Entrepreneurship Genetic? [pdf] · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• MySpace’s tangled web (Google and News Corp ad deal) · 1 points · by lnguyen · no comments
• The Upcoming Large Datastore Singularity · 1 points · by grumpycanuck · no comments
• Days Typeface - Free for Download - Ideal for Logo Designs · 1 points · by imjustcreative · no comments
• Papermaking at home · 1 points · by nahumfarchi · no comments
• Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over · 1 points · by tl · no comments
• Everyone Reads My Blog: How Generalizing Can Help You · 1 points · by ajkumar · no comments